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It's 3rd November!
3 houses already have Christmas lights up and every advert on TV is a sodding Christmas one......
Oh and mince pies have been in the shops since September......
I don't 'hate' Christmas, I just can't stand that it gets shoved at us earlier each year.....
I haven't even finished complaining about bloody fireworks yet. Fireworks are like sooooo 1066. Honestly, it hit me this year, I couldn't be assed to watch the free firework display in my village, and all it took was to go upstairs and look out the window. Yeah wheee whizzz bang. oooh. yawn.
Leeds hospitals staff bus last week. It was OCTOBER!!!!!!
I went into The Range today to get some picture frames, mounting boards and general arty stuff, but had no luck as it looks like everything non-Christmas related has been banished from the shop until January.
It was literally 2 whole floors now entirely filled with nothing but festive plastic tat!
I reckon I’ve got another 2 weeks, tops, before I have to abandon my local as the amateur drinkers are all out again, being monumentally irritating and annoying 🙄
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/alcohol/pubs-to-trial-professional-lanes-20181221180885
Mince Pies should be for life, not just for Christmas!!!
The rest of it can all **** off though...
And we haven't reached peak "Poppy Rage" yet!
The shops can't decide if it's Halloween, Poppy Christmas or actual Christmas with a side order of Black Friday thrown in.
Black Friday is now most of November. Poppy Christmas starts earlier each year and woe betide those not wearing a poppy by end of October, the people that spend their time complaining about woke will get all uppity that you're not Showing Respect.
Not heard any Christmas carols yet but lots of Christmas adverts on TV. 🤬
True. I’m sure we’ll all be catapulted straight into “they’re making us call it Winterfest!” outrage as soon as they’ve left the cenotaph though
The war on Christmas will continue until it stops its illegal occupation of November
Fireworks are like sooooo 1066
Err.....soooo 1605....or if you're in Sussex, 1858
Bonfire in Lewes on Wednesday evening. Plan is to cycle over the top and watch from higher up
Channel 5 were playing Chrimbo films when I still had my summer fan running.
Arrrrrgggghhhhh
Went to a supermarket in Germany the other day. There they already had Christmas bollox on sale which surprised me as Germany wasn't always like that
Christmas decorations went up in our town several weeks ago. I swear it's just the council trying to justify the expense of buying them in the first place.
Fireworks are like sooooo 1066
Err.....soooo 1605....or if you're in Sussex, 1858
Bonfire in Lewes on Wednesday evening. Plan is to cycle over the top and watch from higher up
That is bonfire and fireworks done properly. Miss the madness now I live in Scotland.
That is bonfire and fireworks done properly. Miss the madness now I live in Scotland.
That's because we are trying to get rid of divisive sectarian government propaganda.
Bonfire in Lewes on Wednesday evening. Plan is to cycle over the top and watch from higher up
I've thought about doing that for the last 40 years. Probably about 3 miles for me to ride up to the Kingston ridge but somehow I never get round to it 😂
Bonfire in Lewes on Wednesday evening. Plan is to cycle over the top and watch from higher up
I was there for work at the University this time last year. Didn't realise it was such a massive thing!
My wife's birthday is at the end of November. One year I'm just going to give up and she's getting two Xmas cards!
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Can report that my local supermarket had installed a small Christmas section in the closing weeks of October. A sad state of affairs for Sweden.
Unlike last year, I will not be hidin from the festitivites by running away to Spain to go skydiving. I sense that my mother will attempt to blackmail me into visiting her over the holidays, but I might just use the "snowed in" excuse and stay home with a large julskinka, a kilo of meatballs, some sill and several bottles of wine.
Channel 5 were playing Chrimbo films when I still had my summer fan running.
The Hallmark channel switched to Christmas versions of their insipid bullshit on 1st October. Who knew there were so many heirs to obscure European thrones unexpectedly falling in love in snowy USA?
(Though that didn't turn out too well for one former Hallmark actress!)
Not heard any Christmas carols yet
One of the, mainly 3, random tunes that I find myself humming or whistling to myself all year round includes Deck the Halls...well, it's either that, Popcorn or the 1812 overture! 🤷♂️
We were 70% through an extension last Christmas which we hoped would have been finished before Christmas actually kicked off.
Oh Joy.
We had no kitchen - well, the kitchen was a microwave & air fryer sat on the dining room table which had been squeezed into our living room. And washing up was done bent over the bath in back-breaking fashion.
I said to my Wife we would have a proper blow-out Christmas this year to make up for it and unfortunately she remembered that I'd said it 😄
There's talk of inflatable penguins and god knows what else!
It does seem to have gone full steam ahead very quickly this year.
They're probably trying to get people to spend asap before Rachel raids everyones pockets in a few weeks!!! 😬😬
I said to my Wife we would have a proper blow-out Christmas this year to make up for it and unfortunately she remembered that I'd said it 😄
There's talk of inflatable penguins and god knows what else!
stumpy01 - I feel your pain. This time last year my father in law got taken into hospital and died, then my dad was given a terminal cancer diagnosis with a couple of months to live. Needless to say that we didn’t do Christmas at all. Didn’t mark it in any way.
This year Mrs Binners has stated that to compensate for last year, we’re doing ‘MEGACHRISTMAS x 2!!!’ this time. I dread to think what this is going to entail, but I’m expecting the whole house to be looking like Santa’s Grotto within days
@binners - thanks, man - although I feel you had it worse than me! Bare plaster & a makeshift kitchen doesn't seem so bad now.
Hoping you have an amazing Christmas this year (is it too early to do Christmas greetings 😁🤷♂️? ). I will be fully trying to embrace the spirit, as it will really make my Wife & Daughter's year to have an over the top blow-out.
We've already visited the Christmas section of two garden centres 😁
I've thought about doing that for the last 40 years. Probably about 3 miles for me to ride up to the Kingston ridge but somehow I never get round to it 😂
First time for everything 😉 - view from Kingston ridge should be pretty good and the weather is looking pretty benign.
Went to a supermarket in Germany the other day. There they already had Christmas bollox on sale which surprised me as Germany wasn't always like that
Stollen appears in the German stores on 2nd Tuesday in September, without fail. Every year for at least 15 years. They have to make a pause in the winterval stuff for the halloween stuff and then put winterval stuff back on the promo end of aisle shelves again.
I was expecting Black Friday to be Black Month this year after it crept out to a 10-day long Black Week last year.
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That is bonfire and fireworks done properly. Miss the madness now I live in Scotland.
That's because we are trying to get rid of divisive sectarian government propaganda.
We did however basically invent Guysing and we do hogmanay better too.
Will take that over burning persecuted freedom fighters.
I said to my Wife we would have a proper blow-out Christmas this year to make up for it and unfortunately she remembered that I'd said it 😄
There's talk of inflatable penguins and god knows what else!
Be careful with the inflatable penguins. Don't add sealant, it'll go everywhere!
We're out of food having been away so I rumaged through the cupboards to find something to accompany the spuds - and found an end date Jan 26 Christmas pud. Was delicious. Someone gave us a Lindt advent calendar three weeks ago which I probably won't get to eat. I'm looking forward to Christmas this year, good people in a great place.
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That is bonfire and fireworks done properly. Miss the madness now I live in Scotland.
That's because we are trying to get rid of divisive sectarian government propaganda.
We did however basically invent Guysing and we do hogmanay better too.
Will take that over burning persecuted freedom fighters.
I hear that and I raise you...
Flaming tar barrels!
And we haven't reached peak "Poppy Rage"
What problem do you have with the poppies, exactly? It’s not a commercial spend-fest, it’s a charity raising money to support service members and their families. It’ll be over in five days. *rolls eyes*
No flaming tar barrels this evening as stayed up on the downs, but fun night ride. Far too warm to be November ...15C
Couple of hundred miles too far east anyway 😉
"show her who wears the pants..."
No chance. 😛
The Christmas stuff has been available in m&s at my work for weeks, went in about the same time as the Halloween stuff.
Went in home bargains yesterday and they are full Christmas, decorations out, flashing lights, Xmas songs on repeat. Must be pretty grinding working in there.
And we haven't reached peak "Poppy Rage" yet!
Oh it has during PMQ when Lammy was seen without a poppy. Darren ‘Crafty’ Grimes went into full meltdown.
I seen my first Xmas trees in September proudly displayed in 2 houses in northern Scotland.
On a positive note….
Not heard any Christmas carols yet
Ah, the musician's curse. I recorded my first piece of Christmas music in early September. Last year I had to do one in August. My December concert/performance diary starts in late November, and finishes at midnight Christmas Eve.
Did I mention I love Christmas?
I said to my Wife we would have a proper blow-out Christmas this year to make up for it and unfortunately she remembered that I'd said it 😄
There's talk of inflatable penguins and god knows what else!Be careful with the inflatable penguins. Don't add sealant, it'll go everywhere!
I thought that was badgers? Will be sure to be careful though 👍😁